On Mar 19, 12:42 pm, Mike Wolfson <[email protected]> wrote: > Bringing this discussion back around to Google IO - I have heard, that Vic > G didn't like how large the Microsoft developer conferences were getting > when he worked there. Where Microsoft (and others, Oracle comes to mind also) scales and Google doesn't is with a meaningful partner program. That of course blows up the size of conferences, but that's a good thing - it's part of the blueprint for the monetization of Microsoft's technologies by small and mid size companies through value add such as shrinkwrap software products and professional services. This is an aspect where Google has a total blind spot, although it's a dead three way win for Microsoft, partners and end users. It's hard to make a case against a view that, in the end, all that Google is interested in is to keep it all for themselves and not share with anybody on the outside beyond what serves themselves. Sure, they'll have a few cuddly devs trot out their stuff, but that's going to be it once again, I am sure. So instead they're making conference attendance artificially scarce and wrap it into some mythical registration, and off you go. Personally, I just can't shake the impression that they're just peeing down peoples' backs and tell them it's raining. I'll take a pass on I/ O again. Make sure y'all get real excited and clap real strong at the keynotes' people.
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